Process Excellence Program Director

Job Category:

Manufacturing/Operations

Job Family:

Process Excellence

Job Description:

The Process Excellence Program Director leads the process excellence and operations excellence space for all of Schreiber U.S.  This position reports to the VP/Director of Engineering/Operations.  This position will manage and oversee the projects, activities, and team development of the process excellence team to achieve corporate priorities and provide technical leadership in the application of Lean Six Sigma methodologies.  Primary focus and accountability is with our US manufacturing network however there is some occasional support required for all of our US business operations areas.  This position will provide people and program leadership, strategy development and implementation, budgeting, consulting, and standards development that optimize the space involving people, processes, and our production lines with a heavy bias towards to people and processes.  This position has heavy cross functional interaction within the manufacturing, IT, engineering, supply chain and supplier parts of the business.  Manufacturing is Process Excellences primary internal customer.

What you'll do:


* Build, lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high performing process excellence team reinforcing sound operations excellence principles while instilling a culture of accountability, results, continuous improvement, and people first.
Support an increased understanding and application of more advanced tools as needed to solve complex and/or cross-functional problems while improving process and leadership capability.


* Provide strategic process excellence program leadership across all US sites through continuous process improvement, benchmarking, and best-of-the-best processes.
Develop systems and strategies that result in the understanding and application of basic tools of process excellence in daily work throughout the company with focus on measuring processes, identifying variation, and taking appropriate action to reduce variation and eliminate waste.


* Supporting operations improvement efforts and identifying opportunities to reduce labor and improve product quality, production efficiency, service, and process capability through the application of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Manufacturing Excellence principles, tools, and methodologies.
Identify opportunities and deliver measurable improvement to Schreiber profit.

Act as a center of excellence for cross-functional or other teams as they apply tools of process excellence to improve results in the critical areas of the business targeted by those teams.


* Coordinate process excellence training and development programs including black, green, and yellow belt programs; teach, mentor, and guide; monitor developmental progress of partners and development plans for improving performance.
Develop process excellence standards for application of tools, methods, and measur...